Hepatitis C crisis looms in Canada: foundation

Testing for hepatitis C should be done on all Canadians born between 1945 and 1975 and on all immigrants, urges the Canadian Liver Foundation. This follows a similar recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control last year. Hepatitis C is called the silent killer because there are no symptoms until it is too late ...

Blackberry to be sold to Canadian consortium

Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry has signed a provisional agreement to be bought by a consortium led by Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited.

In a statement released Monday (September 23) BlackBerry valued the deal at $4.7 billion and indicated the consortium would acquire all outstanding shares. It already owns about 10 percent of BlackBerry.

Thousands march in Vancouver for “residential school” reconciliation

For about 100 years, the federal government funded Christian-church run schools across Canada for aboriginal children, with the last one closing in 1996. Ostensibly to provide aboriginal children with an education and bring them into the “modern” world, the system however was terribly flawed.

Aboriginal children were obliged to be sent to these usually quite distant boarding schools where they ...

June flooding costliest natural disaster in Canada

Floods ravaging the western province of Alberta caused $1.7 billion dollars in insured property damage this summer making this the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history, says the Insurance Bureau of Canada.

Four people died and 100,000 others were forced from their homes by days of torrential rain, prompting states of emergency in Calgary and several other communities. ...

Climate change pushing lobster further north to cooler water.

Recently a couple of Mola Mola (ocean sunfish) fish species,typically found in much warmer tropical and temperate water have been spotted in east coast New Brunswick. There has been speculation that due to climate change, the Mola have been venturing further north into waters as oceans warm.